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ffrench

ffrench proper noun: an Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.

Proper noun (1)

ffrench

  1. An Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.
  2. A surname: an English and Irish surname from the same source.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ffrench

Ffrench

  1. A surname; alternative letter-case form of ffrench.

Origin of ffrench

A variant of French: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare fforde, ffoulkes.

Questions about ffrench

What does ffrench mean?
Ffrench means an Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.
What part of speech is ffrench?
Ffrench is a proper noun.

Words near ffrench in the dictionary

  1. FFPs
  2. FFQ
  3. FFQA
  4. FFQAs
  5. FFR
  6. ffrench
  7. Ffrith
  8. FFRs
  9. ffs
  10. FFT
  11. FFTS

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ffrench (page history and authors); Ffrench (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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